In the Buddhist system of education, higher education was placed at:

In the Buddhist system of education, higher education was placed at the second level of learning.

The first level covered the elementary or initiatory stage, not higher study.

The third level does not mark where higher education was located in this scheme.

The fourth level likewise does not fit the Buddhist ordering of advanced study.

Advanced study followed the initial Pabbajja stage of admission to learning.

Nalanda and Vikramshila were leading centres of such higher Buddhist learning.